A mediated-reality system for surgical applications incorporates pre-operative images and real-time captured images of a surgical site into a visualization presented on a head-mounted display worn by a surgeon during a surgical procedure. The mediated-reality system tracks the surgeon's head position and generates real-time images of the surgical site from a virtual camera perspective corresponding to the surgeon's head position to mimic the natural viewpoint of the surgeon. The mediated-reality system furthermore aligns the pre-operative images with the real-time images from the virtual camera perspective and presents a mediated-reality visualization of the surgical site with the aligned pre-operative three-dimensional images or a selected portion thereof overlaid on the real-time images representing the virtual camera perspective.
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1. A method for generating a mediated reality view of a surgical site comprising: receiving pre-operative images representing three-dimensional anatomy of a patient in a first position; receiving post-positioning images captured after the patient is positioned for surgery in a second position; identifying, based on the pre-operative images and the post-positioning images, a set of corresponding features visible in the pre-operative images and the post-positioning images; applying a first transformation to the pre-operative images to substantially align locations of the corresponding features in the pre-operative images to respective locations in the post-positioning images to generate initial transformed pre-operative images; capturing, by a camera array, real-time images of the patient; overlaying the initial transformed pre-operative images on the real-time images to generate an initial mediated reality view; and providing the initial mediated reality view to a display device for display.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the features comprise anatomical features of a body of the patient.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the features comprise fiducial markers on a patch applied to a body of the patient.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the patch comprises a flexible adhesive patch positioned proximate to an anatomical structure of interest.
5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the fiducial markers comprise three-dimensional structures including one or more raised surfaces, and wherein each of the fiducial markers has a unique geometry relative to other fiducial markers on the patch.
6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the fiducial markers are arranged in a grid on the patch.
7. The method of claim 3 , wherein the fiducial markers comprise materials of different densities that are distinguishable in the real-time images.
8. The method of claim 3 , wherein the patch comprises perforated boundaries for tearing the patch into sections.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: identifying, based on the pre-operative images, coordinates in a three-dimensional pre-operative image space corresponding to locations of fiducial markers present on a patch applied to the patient; identifying, based on the real-time images, coordinates in a three-dimensional real-time image space corresponding to locations of the fiducial markers present on the patch applied to the patient; applying a second transformation to refine an alignment of the locations of the fiducial markers in the pre-operative images to the locations of the fiducial markers in the real-time images to generated refined pre-operative images; overlaying the refined pre-operative images on the real-time images to generate a refined mediated reality view; and providing the refined mediated reality view to the display device for display.
10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for generating a mediated reality view of a surgical site, the instructions when executed by a processor of a mediated reality system, cause the mediated reality system to: receive pre-operative images representing three-dimensional anatomy of a patient in a first position; receive post-positioning images captured after the patient is positioned for surgery in a second position; identify, based on the pre-operative images and the post-positioning images, a set of corresponding features visible in the pre-operative images and the post-positioning images; apply a first transformation to the pre-operative images to substantially align locations of the corresponding features in the pre-operative images to respective locations in the post-positioning images to generate initial transformed pre-operative images; capture, by a camera array, real-time images of the patient; overlay the initial transformed pre-operative images on the real-time images to generate an initial mediated reality view; and provide the initial mediated reality view to a display device for display.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the features comprise anatomical features of a body of the patient.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the features comprise fiducial markers on a patch applied to a body of the patient.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the patch comprises a flexible adhesive patch positioned proximate to an anatomical structure of interest.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the fiducial markers comprise three-dimensional structures including one or more raised surfaces, and wherein each of the fiducial markers has a unique geometry relative to other fiducial markers on the patch.
15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the fiducial markers are arranged in a grid on the patch.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the fiducial markers comprise materials of different densities that are distinguishable in the real-time images.
17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the patch comprises perforated boundaries for tearing the patch into sections.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , further comprising stored instructions that when executed cause the mediated reality system to: identify, based on the pre-operative images, coordinates in a three-dimensional pre-operative image space corresponding to locations of fiducial markers present on a patch applied to the patient; identify, based on the real-time images, coordinates in a three-dimensional real-time image space corresponding to locations of the fiducial markers present on the patch applied to the patient; apply a second transformation to refine an alignment of the locations of the fiducial markers in the pre-operative images to the locations of the fiducial markers in the real-time images to generated refined pre-operative images; overlay the refined pre-operative images on the real-time images to generate a refined mediated reality view; and provide the refined mediated reality view to the display device for display.
19. A mediated reality system comprising: a camera array; a display device; a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for generating a mediated reality view of a surgical site, the instructions when executed by a processor of the mediated reality system, cause the mediated reality system to: receive pre-operative images representing three-dimensional anatomy of a patient in a first position; receive post-positioning images captured after the patient is positioned for surgery in a second position; identify, based on the pre-operative images and the post-positioning images, a set of corresponding features visible in the pre-operative images and the post-positioning images; apply a first transformation to the pre-operative images to substantially align locations of the corresponding features in the pre-operative images to respective locations in the post-positioning images to generate initial transformed pre-operative images; capture, by the camera array, real-time images of the patient; overlay the initial transformed pre-operative images on the real-time images to generate an initial mediated reality view; and provide the initial mediated reality view to the display device for display.
20. The mediated reality system of claim 19 , wherein the display device comprises a head-mounted display device.
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